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Russia, China veto UN effort to end violence in Syria

Vote comes amid bloody crackdown against opposition

By Anthony Shadid and Neil MacFarquhar

 |  New York Times  

  February 05, 2012

A UN Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria ended in acrimony and a veto by Russia and China yesterday, hours after the Syrian military attacked the ravaged city of Homs in what opposition leaders described as the bloodiest government assault in the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

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